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* [COFF] Happy birthday, ARPAnet!
@ 2020-04-06 21:58 dave
  2020-04-06 23:19 ` grog
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From: dave @ 2020-04-06 21:58 UTC (permalink / raw)


RFC 1 "Host Software" was published on this day in 1969 by Steve Crocker; 
it described the IMP (the forerunner of today's routers).

-- Dave


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* [COFF] Happy birthday, ARPAnet!
  2020-04-06 21:58 [COFF] Happy birthday, ARPAnet! dave
@ 2020-04-06 23:19 ` grog
  2020-04-07  0:50   ` dave
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From: grog @ 2020-04-06 23:19 UTC (permalink / raw)


On Tuesday,  7 April 2020 at  7:58:00 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> RFC 1 "Host Software" was published on this day in 1969 by Steve Crocker;
> it described the IMP (the forerunner of today's routers).

And I always put it as 30 October 1969, the day the first packets were
sent.

Greg
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* [COFF] Happy birthday, ARPAnet!
  2020-04-06 23:19 ` grog
@ 2020-04-07  0:50   ` dave
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From: dave @ 2020-04-07  0:50 UTC (permalink / raw)


On Tue, 7 Apr 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> And I always put it as 30 October 1969, the day the first packets were
> sent.

     https://www.onthisday.com/day/april/7

     ``1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1''

I'm not going to "debate" this any further; there is a provision to 
correct them if you feel motivated enough.

-- Dave


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